Georges Selzer stood naked in the snow when guards at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland tattooed a camp number on his left forearm: 101100. Standing at a podium more than six decades later, the 95-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor calmly unbuttoned and rolled up his left sleeve to show some 30 students at The...Read More

Maria Santini of Parkville received an early Christmas present during her weekly visit to St. Michael the Archangel, Overlea. Dec. 3 – a Mass celebrated in her native Spanish language The Venezuelan-born parishioner of the church joined her two daughters and bilingual husband, along with more than 100 fellow Spanish-speaking Catholics, for the parish’s first...Read More

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Supreme Court Dec. 1 agreed to review a case challenging the Bush administration's support for federal funding for faith-based institutions.Read More

More than a year after Hurricane Katrina, many people from Gulfport, Miss., are now returning to their hometown. The houses may be built, the streets cleaned and the families eager to move on with their lives, but the everyday items for their homes are missing.Read More

Kathleen Crocken won $525 during the 50/50 raffle at the annual Gala of Hope on Oct. 21. No sooner was the money in her grasp that she handed it right back to Deacon Rodrigue Mortel, M.D., who serves as director of the Office of the Propagation of the Faith and the Baltimore/Haiti project for the...Read More

Since its founding 45 years ago by the Franciscan Sisters of Baltimore, St. Elizabeth School in Baltimore has developed into one of Maryland’s most respected schools for students with special needs.Read More

WHEATON, Ill. (CNS) -- A typed copy of a Scripture passage is taped to the front door of Tom Hogueisson's apartment in a housing complex supported by Wheaton Franciscan Services and designated for people with AIDS.Read More

Our lengthy "holiday season" driven by the consumer-confidence index and lasting for months is a bad idea, writes Stephen Kent. It all adds up to a festival of consumerism, he believes; it wrings the true meaning out of Christmas. But Liz Quirin says that in her family Christmas shopping is a happy time of being...Read More